THEATRICAL NOVELTIES.
Tiu: Parisian ballet spectilde of the Revolt tf die harem was this week produced at Covent Garden, with great splendour of scenery and dresses. As a pantomimic drama, it is described as being utterly
without in and not comparable with any of the ballets of action at the King's Theatre. There is only one eminent artiste—PAULINE LEROVN ; 1111d the fignrantes, it is said, owe much more to the Millsergeant than the ballet-master. The corps of female warriors is numerous, and performs its evolutions with great spirit. The bath scene, respecting which some very strange appre/ansioas had been encouraged, is managed with a disappointing decormn ; it does not realize what the bath of the Naiads at the Adelphi had led tile public to expect. The fact is, that the only superiority the Great Ti t Aca.res Jaye over the 31inor, in regard to show even, is greater space and numbers ; and these advantages are sometimes thrown away, as in the instance of' the last scene of Gasowas ; where the multitude fills up and lessens the effect of the spare, without being in itself any thing better than a mob, almost incapable of arrangement so as to have a picturesque appearance.
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